Wondering why nobody puts some freight onto the high speed lines. I would think that the courier companies would like an hourly train leaving between major cities instead of flying all of their parcels. The costs wouldn't be that much since you would have to build the track for the passenger service so it would just be the incremental costs for the service. Of course passenger traffic would have the right of way which would be the opposite of traditional rail service in North America. I'm not suggesting that it would be for containers running across the continent (though that would be an interesting experiment).

So what do all those people flying from one place to another in the US do? If you need to drive in your destination then you'll just rent a car like you would have if you flew.

Vancouver is a great city. Welcome to Canada. Bring your friends!

And all are in Hell right now because they followed the wrong god. It's Thor you're supposed to follow!

You say that as if the unions cared about anyone other than the unions. I was in one while working for the government and when they were going to terminate me to prevent me from going from temporary to permanent due to the length of my employment (something completely against the law) the response from the union was that they could do what they wanted. Glad my $600 a year in union dues was going for something useful.

They kept the surface area constant between the shapes.

You can insult them in English but must include a French translation which has to be in a visibly larger font.

In my suburb a lot of the homes are of the age that the roofs need replacement and I've seen many different companies installing them. You can tell a lot about the various companies by how they work. They cheap companies take every shortcut and are about doing the most number of roofs during the season. You can see the guys up on the roof as the sun is going down. I'm talking the last part of the sun is visible against the horizon. Plus none of their workers are tied up against falls. No wonder they get hurt. The more expensive companies are cleaned up by the time you need to turn your car headlights on and always have their workers tied up.

There's talk that we might get electricity sometime next year!

Canada has many great places for data centers. How do I know? Because we have lots of data centers up here. Not that Dropbox needed to actually put one up here. They just needed to put our accounts on their Irish servers too. We've got excellent connections to Europe.

Well, once the driver/overseer is gone then there will be job opening up because of this. The full service gas station will come back!

If you do your updates through iTunes then you don't need as much free space on your device.

This is the use of the logs held by the phone company which show what cell tower your phone connected to and when. It can locate you to within a specific area during a period of time (or at least your SIM).

According to that logic then all of your web browsing is open to police capture without a warrant. Everything you download is captured in logs on a web server somewhere so you are saying it's fine for the police to look at them, no warrant required?

You can transfer the connection information from another device. The Withings scale does this. You connect to it via Bluetooth and it sends the Wi-Fi credentials over after asking for your permission.

I was wondering about that. It's been a number of years since I've had to worry about configuring Apache but when I did it was for a government department that had a fair number of virtual hosts. Most of then didn't have HTTPS so they were all grouped onto one IP address and used a virtual host to configure them. But if they all needed to be on HTTPS and you still can't use a virtual host for configuration then I can see that being a huge pain for them. The web configuration isn't too bad but it would involve another department to order the external IP addresses, the network group to configure them, set up the firewall rules, and switches, and the sysadmins to set up the servers with the new internal IP addresses. Not that the work itself is very difficult but when you factor in all of the forms that needed to be filled in (they were very big on ITIL) plus meetings and scheduling in when the work could be done it would take quite a while to do this project.

I don't miss that job at all.